I look at Barack [Obama], he's slim like my father, and Michelle's [Obama] full figured like my mother. And I just love it.
I have therefore concluded to apply for the privilege of becoming a Cadet at West Point.
A military life has ever comported with my inclination.
I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it.
A girl in want of a Leopard still has feet.
In battle, do not think that you have to win. Think rather that you do not have to lose.
Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.
Into the cultural and technological system of the modern world, the patriotic spirit fits like dust in the eyes and sand in the bearings. Its net contribution to the outcome is obscuration, distrust, and retardation at every point where it touches the fortunes of modern mankind.